The Youth Sport Trust (YST) is to set up a panel of experts to look at how its annual UK School Games event can be made more inclusive.

The survey will be part of the trust's aims to make the games more affective at increasing opportunities for young disabled people to take part in competitive school sport.

Leading the panel will be multi-paralympic medalist swimmer Marc Woods. The group will look to consult with a range of sporting and disability federations.

Alison Oliver, director of YST, said: "We have made some excellent progress in recent years to ensure that a disability programme is established at the UK School Games, with swimming, athletics and table tennis all included last year."

The UK School Games were first held in 2006.

The findings of the survey, which are due to be published at the end of the spring, will provide recommendations for the YST and will look to address the rationale for the future inclusion of an extended disability programme within the UK School Games event.